Capturing a Moment in Time with Babyprints Cornwall

Create a precious keepsake to treasure forever with Trudy from Babyprints Cornwall. 

Trudy specialises in creating beautiful, framed casts of hands and feet. Over the years she has taken great pleasure in creating casts of babies of only days old, all the way through to grandparents.

She began her business five years ago, after she suffered a life changing event in the form of a brain tumour. Whilst she spent time recuperating she kept thinking about the plan she had long harboured to start a business she would enjoy. Trudy had seen Babyprints before she moved to Cornwall, and thought it was the perfect idea. A friend who runs a Babyprints business near London had sparked her interest, and having kept careful watch she knew this was a business she wanted to be part of.

“I love meeting all the new babies and their families,” says Trudy. “Sometimes a visit to me is the first trip out for a family with their newborn.” The comfortable one-to-one home based experience that Trudy offers provides reassurance to new mums and dads. 

“My clients have returned time and again with babies and siblings. I have enjoyed seeing whole families grow over the years and have been kept busy charting their progress.” Family sessions are a beautiful way of capturing the whole family in ‘nurture’ frames. Trudy recently did this for a family whose youngest has a life limiting health issue. 

Customers are welcomed into Trudy’s relaxing studio in central Truro where they can see sample frame and choose which style they would like their casts framed in.  Each appointment takes between 30 mins to an hour.

To create a 3D cast, Trudy makes a mould, which takes approximately two minutes for each hand or foot and is entirely safe. The mixture is a natural product, made from seaweed, and is non-toxic and biodegradable, so casts can be taken from newborn. Your baby or child will have their hands or feet dipped into a warm mixture which then becomes firm (but flexible), after a minute or two the hand or foot can easily slide out. Even better, there is no residue, so the hand or foot comes out clean. 

“I love taking the casts of newborns, as they are only tiny for such a short time, this captures those moments forever.” 

For impressions, Trudy uses a very soft terracotta clay, which takes literally seconds to do. Impressions are usually taken from 3 months. From these, Trudy can also produce unique solid silver hand and footprint jewellery, charms, cufflinks and keyrings. These can be created at any age as the individual print is taken and miniaturised to be put onto the jewellery.

“It's a lovely way to spend my days - creating priceless keepsakes for the families of Cornwall.”